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Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses
Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses. / By Mr. Thomas Boston, late Minister of the Gospel at Etterick.
United States : s.n. Printed for the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. 1787
State 4 › Part 3 › DOCTRINE. There shall be a Resurrection of the Dead.
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In discoursing of this subject, I shall first show the certainty of the resurrection; next, I shall inquire into the nature of it; and lastly, make some practical improvement of the whole.
In d•scoursing of this subject, I shall first shew the certainty of the resurrection; next, I shall inquire into the nature of it; and lastly, make some practical improvement of the whole.
I. In showing the certainty of the resurrection, I shall evince, (1.) That God can raise the dead. And, (2.) That he will do it; which are the two grounds or topics laid down by Christ himself, when disputing with the Sadduc, […] Matth xxii. 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
I. In shewing the certainty of the resurrection, I shall evince, (1.) That God can raise the dead. And, (2.) That he will do it; which are the two grounds or topics laid down by Christ himself, when disputing with the Sadduc, 〈…〉 Matth xxii. 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Fi•st, Seeing God is almighty, surely he can raise the dead. We have instances of this powerful work of God, both in the Old and New Testament. The son of the widow in Sar•ptu, was raised from the dead, 1 Kings xvii 22. The Shunamte's son, 2 Kings iv 35 And the man […] into the sepulchre of Elisha, chap. xiii. 21. In which we may observe a gradation, the second of these miraculous events being more illustri than the first, and the third than the second The fist of these persons was raised when he was but newly dead, the prophet Elijah who raised him, being present at his decease. The Second, when he had lai dead a considerable time: namely, while his mother travelled from She to mount Carmel, (reckoned about the distance of sixteen miles) and returned from the to her house with Elisha, who raised him. The last not till they were burying him, and the corpse was cat into the prophets grave. In like manner in the New Testament. S's daughter, (